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WolfBlock has announced that John M. Loalbo has joined the firm as partner in the Private Client Services and Business Litigation Practice Groups and will be resident in the firm's Roseland, NJ office.

Representing the New York County Democratic Party in the U.S. Supreme Court case of New York State Board of Elections v. Lopez-Torres, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld lawyers led by Andrew Rossman of the New York office won a long-debated and hotly contested case regarding the way in which justices to the New York State Supreme Court (the trial court of...

Stradley Ronon partner Paul A. Patterson was recently elected to a three-year term on the firm's board of directors. Chairman William R. Sasso and Financial Partner Thomas J. Renehan Jr. were re-elected to the board, also for a three-year term.
As chair of the bankruptcy & creditor's rights practice group and co-chair of the firm's finance and...

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has announced that Gary D. Friedman has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation/Regulatory Department and Employment Litigation Group, and will be resident in the New York City office.

The Thomson Corporation has established a strategic presence in the emerging business-to-business social networking space, announcing recently the addition of Boston-based Contact Networks, and its enterprise relationship management (ERM) product, ContactNet, to its portfolio of business intelligence and relationship management services for legal and other...

Justin P. Klein, a partner in the Business and Finance Department at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, was awarded the 2007 Dennis H. Replansky Memorial Award by the Philadelphia Bar Association Business Law Section in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the local and legal communities. Mr. Klein received the honor at the Business Law...

Loeb & Loeb LLP has announced that Elizabeth L. Majers will join the firm's Chicago office as a partner in the Corporate Department, working in the Commercial Finance and Bankruptcy, Workouts and Creditors Rights practice groups.

Nixon Peabody LLP has named Richard F. Langan Jr. to serve as the firm's chief executive officer and managing partner.
Mr. Langan will become leader of the firm and assume the titles of CEO and managing partner effective May 1 at which time current CEO and Managing Partner Harry P. Trueheart III will become the non-executive chairman of Nixon Peabody....

Thomas J. O'Leary, a newly appointed partner at Connell Foley LLP, recently prevailed in a wrongful death case brought against Transportation Insurance Company (TIC), a subsidiary of the seventh largest commercial insurer in the U.S. The case was decided after six years of litigation.

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP has announced that the firm has elected 17 new partners, effective January 1. They are:
• S. Derek Bauer, Atlanta office, a partner in the Litigation Practice Group, who specializes in health care, media, First Amendment and civil rights litigation.
• Joseph O. Blanco, Atlanta office, a partner in the...

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP will enhance its national HR Law practice with the addition of all 13 lawyers from boutique firm Connelly Sheehan Harris LLP, a Chicago-based employment litigation boutique with a national practice, beginning February 1.

Joyce A. Kuhns, a partner in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Department of Saul Ewing LLP, was honored recently for her completion of an eight-month leadership development program sponsored by Leadership Maryland.
Ms. Kuhns and 51 fellow graduates of Leadership Maryland's 15th class celebrated at a black-tie reception and banquet last month at the...

The firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has announced the election of 20 new partners, in addition to the appointment of seven attorneys to the position of counsel, all effective January 1.
A spokesperson for Weil Gotshal said that this partnership class was one of the most diverse in the firm's history, representing all major departments of the...

ACCION USA, a private, non-profit organization that provides financial services to low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs, has announced that it has elected a new member to its board of directors, Anna E. Dodson, a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP.

Howell W. Melton Jr., managing partner of Holland & Knight LLP, has announced that 18 attorneys in the firm have been elected to partnership effective January 1. Ten associates and eight senior counsel located in various offices throughout the firm were elevated.

The National Arbitration Forum presented the organization's inaugural Civil Justice Award to the Hon. Harold Kalina, for whom the award will be named, on December 1.
Upon presenting the award, Roger Haydock, managing director of the National Arbitration Forum, said, "Judge Kalina has ennobled and improved dispute resolution and civil justice during...

John E. Wolfgang, partner in UHY LLP and a member of its management committee, has been appointed chairman of the global accounting and consulting firm association of UHY International (UHYI). Mr. Wolfgang formally took the helm at the UHYI 2007 Annual Meeting of partners held in Singapore recently. He was elected to a five-year term.

When corporate fraud occurs, it usually is an inside job made easier because the company had an insufficient prevention program, according to executives surveyed by the audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG LLP. Some 42 percent of survey respondents said inadequate internal control was the primary contributor in the previous year to a fraud incident against...

Akerman Senterfitt LLP has announced that the 21 lawyers and consultants of Stadtmauer Bailkin LLP, a New York-based law firm specializing in economic development incentives, zoning/land use, and real estate, have joined Akerman's New York office, more than doubling its presence in that market.

Wiley Rein is pleased to announce that Thomas J. Navin, former Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau, has joined the firm as a partner in its preeminent Communications Practice . With more than a decade of public and private sector experience handling regulatory matters and litigation, Mr. Navin will play a leading...